Psychology as a Dialogical Science

Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes-de-Oliveira is Professor at the Department of Developmental and School Psychology and at the Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Brasília, Brazil. She coordinates the Laboratory of Cultural Psychology (LABMIS/University of Brasilia) and coordinated the Dialogical Psychology working group at the Brazilian National Association of Psychological Research-ANPEPP. She also leads GAIA research group, concerned about youth development in conditions of poverty and social vulnerability, and the development of critical methodologies for professionals working in Justice and Social Assistance institutional contexts. She coedited with Angela Branco the book Diversidade e Cultura da Paz na escola: uma abordagem sociocultural [Diversity and Culture for Peace: a sociocultural approach] (2012) and Alterity, Values, and Socialization. Human Development within Educational Contexts (2018), and edited the book A Adolescência, direitos humanos e socioeducação: perspectivas interdisciplinares [Adolescence, Human Rights and socio-education: interdisciplinary perspectives]. She has been a consultant to governmental projects on social policies and human rights, especially those aiming at benefiting the developmental perspectives of adolescents in conflict with the law.
Angela Uchoa Branco is Professor Emeritus of the University of Brasilia, and teaches at Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil. She was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, at Duke University and at Clark University (USA), and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her research interests and publications include the development of human values, ethics and moral development, cooperation, competition and individualism, and the development of the dialogical self. Among her publications are the books Communication and Metacommunication in Human Development (Branco & Valsiner, 2004), Cultural Psychology of Human Values (Branco & Valsiner, 2012), Diversidade e Cultura de Paz na Escola (Branco & Lopes-de-Oliveira, 2012), Cooperação na Educação Infantil [Cooperation and Early Childhood Education] (Palmieri & Branco, 2015), and Bullying: Família e Escola Enfrentando a Questão [Bullying: Family and School Targeting the Issue] (Manzini & Branco, 2017).
Sandra Ferraz Dourado Castillo Freire is author and professor of Human Development and Psychology of Education at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She supervises pre-service teachers in K-5 public schools and graduate research projects. She coordinates the Psychology of Education unit in her department, is affiliated to the Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program, is a vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Education and directs the "Dialogue -Dialogical practices in Education Laboratory", which is committed to develop dialogical research practices within dialogical learning contexts, and to design innovative projects to achieve high-quality education for all based on sociocultural and dialogical perspectives. She has a B.A. in Pedagogy from the University of Brasilia, an M.A. in Education from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Brasília.